We are happy to invite you to the launch of NIEUWE NIEUWSMARKT 3: RECLAIMING SOIL, an event opening the harvest season at 4Siblings community garden in Amsterdam Nieuw West.
Saturday the 5th of September 2026
Doors open: 16:00
Collective reading: 16:30
Soil Meditation by masharu: 17:00
at
Noorderhof
President Allendelaan 1,
1064GW Amsterdam
NIEUWE NIEUWSMARKT: DOCUMENTS FOR COMMUNITY ACTION.
While finishing this issue of Nieuwe Nieuwsmarkt on Reclaiming Soil, Amsterdam activated a code red for extreme heat for the first time in its history. This heatwave, sweeping our city and Europe, is the consequence of decades of political neglect: a failure to implement environmental policy that protects all living beings and ecosystems, rather than a green capitalist agenda serving the interests of a few. In 2023, at the largest climate justice march Amsterdam has ever seen, Greta Thunberg called for international solidarity, linking war, occupation, and climate justice. A man took the microphone from her hand and scolded: “I came here for a climate demonstration, not a political view.” This moment reveals how climate activism has developed — a movement that looks inward while the world is burning. When even report exhaustion and disengagement, the need for an intersectional understanding of climate justice is urgent.
Who gets to cultivate, walk, grow, and live on the soil that Amsterdam occupies? Who gets pushed out, and what damage continues to be done to the ecosystems our city is built on? Soil holds the memory of what was here before the pavement, and the question of what is allowed to grow — and by whom. We exchange seeds, build cooperatives, turn concrete into gardens, eat earth, make love in nature, demand restitution for our colonised ancestors, and oppose today's wars that fuel neocolonial extractivism. We won't wait any longer for our politicians to take the protection of the environment seriously. It is time to act together!
With contributions by: Razia Barsatie, Milena Bonilla, Nino Cadeau & Lindsharry (Precious Liquid), Jules Davis-Dufayard & Tony Kritzer, Sasha Dupont, Famine Food in WW2 (Tom Vorstenbosch, Ingrid de Zwarte, Leni Duistermaat and Tinde van Andel), Four Siblings, masharu & Jennifer Plein (Museum of Edible Earth), Iris Poels (Voedselpark Amsterdam), Reclaim the Seeds, Barnaby Savage, Mark Schalken (Koeien Monument), Rens Spanjaard, Spookstad (Student Intifada), Wouter Stroet & Hanane Abaydi (Verdedig Noord), Mirelle van Tulder (Roots to Fruits), Elke Uitentuis (GROND) & Charline Mougin (Bajestuin), Ester Venema (Dreaming Problems), and Marieke Zwart.
Editors: Müge Yilmaz and WERKER Collective
(Marc Roig Blesa, Rogier Delfos and Vincent Becher)
Initiated and designed by Werker Collective.
28 pages, 42 ✕ 29.7 cm, single color offset, with a poster by Spookstad. Languages: English, Dutch, Spanish.
Price: 7 Euro.
NIEUWE NIEUWSMARKT is made possible with the financial support of Stichting DOEN and Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst.
NIEUWE NIEUWSMARKT 3: RECLAIMING SOIL is available at Atheneum Boekhandel Amsterdam, Fort van Sjakoo Amsterdam, Limestone Books Maastricht, Perdu Amsterdam, Printroom Rotterdam, San Serrife Amsterdam.
You can also purchase your copy directly on our website: .online
